Scores of Australian women demand gender violence justice

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Wave of allegations of sexual abuse in some of the country’s highest political offices spurred rallies

Demonstrators attend a March 4 Justice rally at Treasury Gardens in Melbourne, Australia, on March 15 2021. Picture: BLOOMBERG/CARLA GOTTGENS

Women wore black to signal “strength and mourning” and chanted, “We will not be silenced”. Protesters in Melbourne carried a metres-long white banner bearing the names of women killed in Australia from gendered violence since 2008, while those outside Parliament House in Canberra prepared to deliver two petitions demanding change.

Recently reported scandals include a rape allegation against attorney-general Christian Porter, who has strongly denied the alleged 1988 assault. The public anger over the government’s handling of the alleged incidents mirrors the sentiment on display at protests in London at the weekend after the killing of 33-year-old Sarah Everard, who disappeared while walking home at night.

However, he raised some hackles by expressing pride in the right to peaceful protest: “Not far from here, such marches, even now, are being met with bullets, but not in this country.”

 

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